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Lesson 7: Associated Ratios and the Value of a Ratio
Classwork
Example 1
Which of the following correctly models that the number of red gumballs is the number of white gumballs?
a. Red
White
b. Red
White
c. Red
White
d. Red
White
Example 2
The duration of two films are modeled below.
a. The ratio of the length of Film A to the length of Film B is _______ : _______.
b. The length of Film A is of the length of Film B.
c. The length of Film B is of the length of Film A.
Film A
Film B

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Exercise 1
Sammy and Kaden went fishing using live shrimp as bait. Sammy brought 8 more shrimp than Kaden brought. When
they combined their shrimp they had 32 shrimp altogether.
a. How many shrimp did each boy bring?
b. What is the ratio of the number of shrimp Sammy brought to the number of shrimp Kaden brought?
c. Express the number of shrimp Sammy brought as a fraction of the number of shrimp Kaden brought.
d. What is the ratio of the number of shrimp Sammy brought to the total number of shrimp?
e. What fraction of the total shrimp did Sammy bring?

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Exercise 2
A food company that produces peanut butter decides to try out a new version of its peanut butter that is extra crunchy,
using twice the number of peanut chunks as normal. The company hosts a sampling of its new product at grocery stores
and finds that 5 out of every 9 customers prefer the new extra crunchy version.
a. Let’s make a list of ratios that might be relevant for this situation.
i. The ratio of number preferring new extra crunchy to total number surveyed is _________.
ii. The ratio of number preferring regular crunchy to the total number surveyed is _________.
iii. The ratio of number preferring regular crunchy to number preferring new extra crunchy is _________.
iv. The ratio of number preferring new extra crunchy to number preferring regular crunchy is _________.
b. Let’s use the value of each ratio to make multiplicative comparisons for each of the ratios we described here.
i. The number preferring new extra crunchy is _________ of the total number surveyed.
ii. The number preferring regular crunchy is _________ of the total number surveyed.
iii. The number preferring regular crunchy is _________ of those preferring new extra crunchy.
iv. The number preferring new extra crunchy is _________ of those preferring regular crunchy.
c. If the company normally sells a total of 90,000 containers of regular crunchy peanut butter, how many
containers of new extra crunchy peanut butter should it produce, and how many containers of regular crunchy
peanut butter should it produce? What would be helpful in solving this problem? Does one of our comparison
statements above help us?

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Try these next scenarios:
d. If the company decides to produce 2,000 containers of regular crunchy peanut butter, how many containers of
new extra crunchy peanut butter would it produce?
e. If the company decides to produce 10,000 containers of new extra crunchy peanut butter, how many containers
of regular crunchy peanut butter would it produce?
f. If the company decides to only produce 3,000 containers of new extra crunchy peanut butter, how many
containers of regular crunchy peanut butter would it produce?

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Problem Set
1. Maritza is baking cookies to bring to school and share with her friends on her birthday. The recipe requires 3 eggs
for every 2 cups of sugar. To have enough cookies for all of her friends, Maritza determined she would need 12
eggs. If her mom bought 6 cups of sugar, does Maritza have enough sugar to make the cookies? Why or why not?
2. Hamza bought 8 gallons of brown paint in order to paint his kitchen and dining room. Unfortunately, when Hamza
started painting, he thought the paint was too dark for his house, so he wanted to make it lighter. The store
manager would not let Hamza return the paint but did inform him that if he used of a gallon of white paint mixed
with 2 gallons of brown paint, he would get the shade of brown he desired. If Hamza decided to take this approach,
how many gallons of white paint would Hamza have to buy to fix his problem?
Lesson Summary
For a ratio , we are often interested in the associated ratio . Further, if and can both be measured in
the same unit, we are often interested in the associated ratios and .
For example, if Tom caught fish and Kyle caught fish, we can say:
 The ratio of the number of fish Tom caught to the number of fish Kyle caught is .
 The ratio of the number of fish Kyle caught to the number of fish Tom caught is .
 The ratio of the number of fish Tom caught to the total number of fish the two boys caught is .
 The ratio of the number of fish Kyle caught to the total number of fish the two boys caught is .
For the ratio , where , the value of the ratio is the quotient .
For example: For the ratio , the value of the ratio is or .